Samuel H. Scott, brother of Matthew elsewhere mentioned, was for some forty years a citizen of Virginia township, engaged in farming. He had been out of health, was coming to his home from Adams' mills walking on the railroad-track, was overtaken by a freight-train, and miscalculating as to time failed to get out of the way before the train, then " slowed '' very much, struck him. The nervous shock in his enfeebled and diseased condition was too much for him, and he died in a few days, his death occurring March 5, 1875. He had been for many years a member and for a few years an elder ill the Presbyterian church. His wife (Miss Jane Denny) survives him, without children.

Source:  Historical Collections of Coshocton County Ohio 1764-1876
Author: William E Hunt, pub. 1876